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Birmingham Airport Runway 15 departure routes

Establishing revised departure routes utilising Performance-based Navigation (PBN)
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  • Sponsor: Birmingham Airport Limited

    The proposal seeks to establish revised departure routes from runway 15 utilising Performance-based Navigation (PBN) technology, following the extension to the airport’s instrument runway.

    Update

    As part of the original decision to approve the airspace change requested by Birmingham Airport Limited (BAL) the CAA set a number of conditions, one of which required BAL to conduct a further trial of 'Option 5' for turboprop-driven aircraft. More detail on this can be found in our Decision document on this page (para 126-7).

    The CAA has now received representations from Birmingham Airport Limited (BAL), which in the interests of transparency, we are making available to the aviation community:  BirminghamAirportRunway15DecisionResponse

    Runway 15 Southerly SIDs CAA PIR assessment  and supplementary documents have now been published.

    Last updated: 20 August 2019

    Framework briefing held with organisations considering proposal of the change TBD

    Sponsor external consultation documents (with associated appendices)

    • Primary consultation
    • Supplementary consultation
    11 Jan - 17 May 2013
    Sponsor's external consultation feedback report June 2013
    Sponsor's formal airspace change proposal (date received by CAA) 14 August 2013
    Operational assessment by CAA TBD
    Consultation assessment by CAA 12 October 2015
    Environmental assessment by CAA 31 March 2016

    Runway 15 Southerly SIDs Decision document (CAA change approval)

    Note: BAL suspended its request for approval of the 2 northbound SIDs (as discussed in the Decision document, paragraph 17).  BAL has re-designed the SIDs.  The aim of the re-design work was to produce aircraft tracks that better reflected the proposals consulted upon.  BAL has submitted these re-designs to the CAA (see below).  

    4 April 2016

    Runway 15 Southerly SIDs AIRAC distribution date / AIP amendment

    12 May 2016

    Runway 15 Southerly SIDs change implementation date

    23 June 2016
    Runway 15 Southerly SIDs PIR initiation date 7 April 2017

    PIR data received:

    Doc Ref 01  Runway 15 Southerly SIDs Sponsor's PIR analysis

    Doc Ref 02 to Doc Ref 06: publication to be confirmed by Barston Parish Council 
    Doc Ref 07 Supplementary Information Request
    Doc Ref 08 Birmingham Airport Feasibility Study into increasing the altitude of the Noise Preferential Routes 
    Doc Ref 09 Birmingham Airport Supplementary Information Request 2 (3rd December 2018)
    Doc Ref 10 E mail BAL-CAA
    Doc Ref 11 Supplementary Information Request 2.1 (10th January 2019)
    Doc Ref 12 20190115BHXLeqCountours_2010_dep+arr_ACP_vs_arr_ACP April 2013
    Doc Ref 13 20190
    Doc Ref 14 20190115BHXLeqcontours_2016_Leq16hrDay_v2
    Doc Ref 15 20190115BHXLeqContours_2022_dep+arr_ACP_vs_arr_ACP April 2013

    7 July 2017 









    Runway 15 Southerly SIDs CAA PIR assessment  20 August 2019
    Northbound SIDs resubmission 18 December 2018
    Northbound SIDs Operational Assessment  
    Consulted vs Proposed SID centrelines  
    Northbound SIDs Decision document 22 February 2019
    Northbound SIDs implementation date 23 May 2019
    Northbound SIDs distribution date/AIP amendment 11 April 2019

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